Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly archbishop, whose diocese will profit if the church is destroyed...
...arrest, said CIA Director George Tenet, "demonstrates that the U.S. government will not rest" in hunting down spies, "nor will we be intimidated by threats of blackmail." But Justice Department and CIA officials refused to explain why it took authorities almost two years to arrest Groat after he allegedly first attempted to extort money from his former employer...
...garbage." The Sun also reveals that Holliday purportedly attempted to sell her daughter to an English couple for 4,000 pounds and "is said to have taken the money." The child, named Marni, has been safely adopted by a Philadelphia couple. Scotland Yard is reportedly investigating Holliday for attempted blackmail...
...ghosts had used this show to convince Scrooge how wonderful Christmas is, the old man would have been justified in denying Tiny Tim his goose. Yes, many Christmas customs are pagan in origin, but does that justify a special Christmas episode of Melrose Place in which Jennifer tries to blackmail Lexi, who ODs? And as for the drama specials, most of which seem to star Richard Thomas, they certainly ought to make us cry, but they too often resort to the cheapest tricks...
Raskin's claim is seconded by Clark Clifford, the longtime Washington power broker, who tells Hersh he served as Kennedy's go-between with Symington. Later, says Clifford, Kennedy told him he was forced to accept Johnson. But blackmail is a badly stretched conclusion for an author who has so little hard evidence to go on--and who paints Johnson in other parts of the book as ignorant of Kennedy's hidden undertakings...